Jean de Dunois

Jean de Dunois (23 November 1402-24 November 1468) was the illegitimate son of Louis I of Orleans and Mariette d'Enghien, and a French commander during the Hundred Years' War.

Biography
Jean de Dunois was the illegitimate son of Louis I of Orleans and his mistress Mariette d'Enghien, making him a first cousin of Dauphin Charles. Jean was left as the only male to represent the House of Orleans after his father's 1407 assassination and his brother Charles of Orleans' capture at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, and he sided with the Armagnac party during the civil war in France. He was captured by the Burgundians in 1418 and released two years later, upon which he entered Dauphin Charles' service against England. He led the French defenses at the Siege of Orleans, and he would go on to fight alongside Joan of Arc during her later campaigns as well. In 1436, he aided in the capture of Paris, and he then participated in the conquests of Guyenne and Normandy at the end of the Hundred Years' War. Despite taking part in the Praguerie uprising in 1440 and the League of the Public Weal in 1465, he always regained favor at court, and he died in 1468.